Printer s lead and slug rack



C. DE VOS.

PRINTERS LEAD AND SLUG RACK.

1Y0-250.215l Patented Nov. 29,1881.

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UNITED STATES l PATENT OFFICE.

CORNELIUS DE VOS, OF IOWA CITY, IOWA.

PRINTERS LEAD AND SLUG RACK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 250,215, dated November 29, 1881.

Application filed August 4, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, CORNELIUS DE Vos, of Iowa City, in the county of Johnson and State of Iowa, have invented an Improved Printers Lead and Slug Rack, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to save time and labor in using and taking care of printers leads and slugs.

It consists in forming a neat, strong, and durable rack in such a manner that it will have series of graduated spaces with bottoms inclining backward and also laterally, into which differentsizes of leads and slugs can be readily placed,so that they will incline inward to prevent them from falling out, and also incline against each other to be retained in their respective places, from whence they can be convenientlylifted out and used, all as hereinafter fully set forth.

Figure l of my drawings is a perspective view of my improved rack. Fig. 2 is a transverse section. Together they clearly illustrate the construction and operation of my complete invention.

A A are the upright end pieces of my rackframe, preferably made of wood, and tapering on the frontedge. They are rigidly connected by means of a narrow top piece, B, and a wide base-piece, C, being fastened on their ends with nails, screws, or in any suitable way. The top ends of the end pieces shown are only threefourths of an inch wide and the bottom ends four and one-half inches; but theyniay vary in size as desired to produce complete racks of different si-zes.

D is an upright partition, corresponding in form and size with the end pieces, A. l 2 3 represent a series of horizontal partitions, that divide the complete rack into series ot' graduated spaces or shelves adapted to receive and retain leads and slugs of diiierent sizes. These partitions are made of thin wood, paperboard, sheet metal, or other suitable material, and fastened into grooves formed in the upright pieces A D, or rigidly fixed thereto in any suitable way, so that they will 'form a graduated series of shelves that incline from the front and open side ofthe rack rearward, and alsofrom one end ofthe rack toward the other. The incline from the open'front to the rear and closed back, E, is three-sixteenths of an inch or more, and the incline from end to end is no less than about one inch.

Figures indicating the sizes ofthe shelves or spaces are tiXed upon the front edges ot' the upright pieces A D, to aid the operator in placing leads and slugs of different sizes in their respective places.

I ani aware that cases, galleys, and racks of various forms, having spaces of different sizes, have been used for keeping assorted sizes of types, slugs, and leads. A lead-rack having its top and bottom tapering to produce shelves andcompartmentsdifferingindepth,and thereby adapted for leads graduated in length, has also been used; but my rack, having shelves graduated in depth and inclining laterally and also rearward, and adapted to receive assorted sizes of slugs and leads placed in standing positions on their edges, to be retained stationary in such standing positions by means of the doubly-inclined shelves and their own force of gravity, is novel and greatly advantageous.

I claim- As an improved article of manufacture, a printers lead and slug rack having' series of graduated shelves l 2 3, that incline from the front to the rear and from one end toward the other, substantially as shown and described, for the purposes specified.

CORNELIUS DE vos.

Witnesses:

J. SWITzEE, D. DAVIS. 

